Bed-spring-dividing member.



Patented 11116 19, 1917.

W. H. HOLMES.

"BED SPRING DIVIDING MEMBER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE as. 1916.

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Tran STATES; Parana @FFIQE.

WILLIAM H. HOLMES,OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

isnn-srame-nrvrnme MEMBER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1917.

Application filed June 13, 1916. Serial No. 103,392.

To all whom it may concern:

"Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. HOLMES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bed-Spring DividingMembers, of which the following is-a specification.

.lVith the common form of woven wire bed spring as now in general usethe fabric necessarily sags; and when two occupy the bed there is atendency to crowd un omfortably together. Permanent means ave beenproposed for stiffening the fabric longitudinally along the middle ofthe fabric "so that each side can sag independently of the other and.thus forma ridge that will prevent the sleepers from rolling together,but such means are not suitable when one person only is to occupy thebed and it is spring showing my invention applied thereto, portions onlyof the fabric being shown. Fig. 2 is a longitudinally sectional view onthe line IIII Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view on a larger scale showingthe means for stretching and relaxing the dividing member.

Fig. dis a perspective view of one of the hooks employedin theconstruction.

In the views 5 designates the ordinary metallic bed spring frame, and 6an ordinary woven wire spring fabrio attached to the head and foot railsof the frame by coil springs 7. The frame members or rails I providehook members 8 and 9 to embrace the head and foot rails respectively,

said hook members having their shanks each provided with several pairsof holes as seen at 10. The dividing member consists mainly of a stiffwire 11 having at one end a coil spring 12 and at the other end a link18. The end of the dividing drawing" forming v s. done the nose 16ehgages the link 13 and member having the coil spring 12 is connectedwith the hook 8 by means of another hook 14 of stilfwire, such as shownin Fig. fl, which is engaged with the hook 8 by passmg the free endsthereof up through the spring fabric and a pair. of the holes 10 asillustrated in Fig.2 At the other end of the dividing member is a hookmember 15 similar to that marked l t to similarly engage the hook 9except that the hook member 15 1s bent in its shank to form anadditional hook portion l5 which when in operative position inclinestoward the adjacent rail.

11 is brought up into working position as hereinafter described.Pivotally attached to the hook portion 15 is a lever 16 having its upperor shorter arm terminating in a nose 16* and on its longer arm a hook 16about midway of its'length.

In Figs. 2 and 3 the dividing member and the operating parts areindicated by full lines as in the position when the member is vtaut,'andin broken lines as in the relaxed position. To bring the dividing memberinto taut position the'lever is simply pulled up to full line positionand when so pulled up the link 13 engages the hook portion 15*. To relaxthe dividing member the. longer arm of the lever is depremed and whenthis draws it out'of engagement with the hook portion 15 after which thedividing member falls leaving hook 16*.

'The dividing member can be made more or-less taut as desired byshifting the hooks 8 and 9 or either of them to another pair of theholes 10.

The ridge is, of course, formed when the ing member by the weight of thepersons occupying the bed.

Said hook portion is to be engaged by the hook 13 when the-dividingmember I the link engaged with the.

- fabric'is depressed at each side of the divid- The details aresusceptible of modification without departing from the gist of theinvention as claimed.

What I claim is. Y

1. Means for dividing a bed spring longitudinally substantially asdescribed consisting of a detachable strand applied beneath the mattressand adapted to have supporting contact therewith. means for attachingone end of said strand to one end of the spring frame and means forattachingthe other end of the strand to the opposite end 0f said 5 ameincluding a hook and a an": erating lever for engaging the strand Wm;said hook and disengaging the strand ihere from.

Means for dividing a bed sprii "itudinaily substantially as describeding of a detachable strand applied house; i. the mattress and adapted inhave ing Contact therewith, means for one end of said strand in one endspring frame and means for attaching; n'iiei end of the strand in iiie(ppm. of said *ame i'iwindin z a hook and finicnmn Raid, imnlc ini oistrand 1: 1, vaaid immk and (i sir; nd

ifiing a bed spring longin a if; as described consisting is strandapplied beneath the and adapted in have suppe 11g;

(501 in means for attaching; one '2" i h 1 in one end of the spying 115m1 attaching the other end v e id 17 ii opposite end of km irame incl ahook and 'a OiipGiil' lllg ie sei' 1 0 en an; the st and with said hankand i iisengagii 5 five strand ther and neans on said ievei: forreiaining the stmnd l n ged with ihe lever when diwngaged fmin. thehook.

,MLIAM HULMES

